Poroshenko Calls On U.N. To Examine Prospects For Peacekeeping Mission For Donbass Region

President Petro Poroshenko has called on the U.N. to take concrete steps to deploy a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, reports Agence France-Presse. 

A peacekeeping force could help bring the five-year-old war in Ukraine's eastern Donbass region to an end, Poroshenko said on Wednesday during a special session of the General Assembly. 

Poroshenko asked U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to send a fact-finding mission to the region to evaluate options. 

Any mandate should cover...